Mr. Andrew Brown (Director General, Employment Insurance Policy, Skills and Employment Branch, Department of Employment and Social Development) at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

Thank you, Benoît.

Thanks for the question.

I'm Andrew Brown, the director general for employment insurance policy. That also includes policy for the Canada recovery benefit.

What I can tell you right now is that we are monitoring very closely the use of those benefits. We know that, since the end of September, when people moved from the CERB to EI regular benefits and others would have started to receive the Canada recovery benefit, they could use up the 26 weeks of benefits available as early as the end of March, so we are continuing to monitor use.